Scammers and Greed: The Minnow Self-Circle Jerk - PALnet MOD Report 8/5/2017

Let's talk the good stuff first

• I am extremely thrilled with launching my witness since my last report. I currently sit at position 94 on the Witness List, which brings in about 1 block every 36 hours.
• MSP Waves Radio Launched this week - I have two shows in production. Special thanks to @sircork for his relentless work to get this launched.
• @benjojo is pulling his delegation, while not good for MSP, without his generosity to begin with, this group would not exist. I thank him for his kindness in helping many minnows get their footing on this platform.
• @msp-shanehug continues to grow and is sitting just shy of 3000SP, Thank you to everyone that has delegated to me.

The Meat Of This Report

Ever since @fraenk exposed the first known MSP scammer, I, along with the other MSP MODS and a couple of helpful members have been uncovering a TON of abuse on the bots.

So instead of banning and forgetting, I will be exposing the accounts here and any new ones in each report. These people, while not getting a ton of money, are taking advantage of the people that delegate to MSP and are draining the reward pool and it's time for some public shaming. EDIT to address @lexiconical 's concern in comments, We are continuing to ban these accounts. I worded it in such a way that suggests that we were not. I apologize for that confusion.

I fully expect to get some flags for these, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

• @on247 - Was caught creating multiple accounts to upvote his spam. Was asked to stop, promised he would, then continued to make more accounts. https://steemit.com/@on247/transfers to see the long list of codes from @minnowsupport and @banjo. They attempted a second account@nier but that was shut down pretty quickly.

• https://steemit.com/@momoxia/transfers Take a look at the accounts here. We discovered this by the abuse found linked to @arthestically. Who was just active enough to avoid suspicion. But it turns out they're just another scammer.

• @fproductions - Another large account scammer. Several discord usernames were linked to this account. This guy had the nerve to act like all of the accounts with similar naming schemes were not him, although they all vote on the same account.

• @sighanchi - Just a stupid amount of accounts linked to this one. Again, many discord accounts linked to the MSP bots to upvote his spam filled posts.

• @inkedandsexy - @kinglui - @samanthabarolli. Another self-circle jerk. Many more accounts linked to them when you check the https://steemit.com/@samanthabarolli/transfers wallet.

• @x0l - Really bad at the scamming game

• @mufasa-martian - Multiple discord accounts to abuse the bots

• @fairgirl - 14 known discord accounts tied to this one. Jeesh

• @invictuss - 5 or 6 discord accounts tied to this

• @kyhar - Multiple Discord accounts

• @astaetram - Multiple Discord accounts

• @adwiar - Multiple Discord accounts

• @sicontractor - Multiple Discord accounts

• @treachya - Multiple Discord accounts

• @afeliseth - Multiple Discord accounts

• @ibearith - Multiple Discord accounts

• @seveide - Multiple Discord accounts

• @antara - Multiple Discord accounts

• @praju-starlet - Multiple Discord accounts

All of these plus a few more we are double checking against accidental multiple sign-ups which do happen from time to time.

So what are we doing to help prevent Abuse?

• We are adding new MODS to help control the 4300 + accounts under PALnet.
• I am working with @sherlockholmes with information on spammers, scammers, and cheats. If I see something odd, I'll feed it to him and let him do his thing. Please show your support to him. He's doing great work exposing "artists" taking credit for work they have not done.
• We have started reaching out to @steemcleaners and we share information we find.

My Witness

I mentioned it at the start of this report, but I will mention it again in a completely unabashed beg for your vote. There are 16 (at last count) dead witnesses ahead of me on the list. We are the ones that make sure that your transactions are verified correctly. Your vote for me will put the dead witnesses where they belong, which is out of the top 100 list.

How to vote?

• Use the witness page https://steemit.com/~witnesses
• scroll until you see this box and enter swelker101
• click vote and accept my virtual hug!

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